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The annual Indiana Conference on Citizenship, hosted by Sagamore Institute, is designed to inspire and prepare Hoosiers to actively participate in our democracy and advocate for the wellbeing of our state and nation.
This year’s conference, “Media Literacy and Civil Society” focused on the threat of misinformation to civic dialogue, including the impact of artificial intelligence, and highlighted strategies to build media literate citizens. The need for media literacy is more urgent than ever. NewsGuard, which tracks misinformation, recently reported a more than 1,000 percent increase in the number of websites that peddle false news articles – from 49 sites to more than 600. Experts advise that media literacy offers the best opportunity for confronting the rise in misinformation by equipping the public to determine the veracity of content for themselves.
